What Star Wars, and neoliberalism, can offer us are symbols. It can put a black man onscreen, while black people worldwide suffer marginalization. What neoliberalism can do is show what a strong woman looks like, while structurally disempowering women. What Star Wars can do is take us far, far away from its material foundation.

What a beautiful story. Desiree has an otherworldly quality to her, a banished elf or displaced siren who developed a sharp tongue to protect her true nature in the human world. This, in combination with the very prosaic details of baby bricolage among the three of them, makes for a surreal story. It's quite wonderful. Great job.